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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Bill as it deals with human beings. It does not matter in what condition or position one is, one should be allowed to enjoy one’s rights just like any other human being. In this country, when one is arrested on suspicion of having committed an offence, enforcement officers treat that person as if he is no longer a human being. You are a prisoner and, therefore, you can be mishandled and treated in the way they want. When their rights have been breached, some people shy away from reporting to the law enforcement officers because they know that they will get worse treatment than what they had already gone through. We have cases where women are raped, but when they report the offence at police stations they get more shameful treatment than what they went through out there. I do not know whether those people are not trained, or they do not know the human rights of our people. Once you get there, they handle you in the manner they want. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have got our correctional centres, which we call prisons. The other day, I read a story which said that some prisons which are supposed to hold 500 inmates are holding between 5,000 and 10,000 inmates. I fail to understand if the people who dump those people there feel that those prisoners are humans. In case of a disease outbreak, it can clear the entire prison population, because The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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